Book Suggestions (from December 2013 & 2014 Meetings)

Got time to read more than one book a month?  Need a book suggestion?  Perhaps one of the books suggested, but not voted for, at our ‘voting’ meetings would suffice. 

Here’s a record of all the books suggested from our last 2 voting meetings.  The lists are sorted by the Goodreads.com rating.  (the "asterisk" indicates books not voted for)

December 2013 Suggestions:

Title & Author	From Goodreads.com
	Year First Published	Page Count	Rating	# of ratings
The Rent Collector by Camron Wright	2012	304	4.24 Stars	6,789
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls	2005	288	4.21 Stars	478,071
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom	1981	406	4.19 Stars	10,556
*The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton	2008	648	4.10 Stars	114,532
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman	2007	312	4.09 Stars	216,664
*Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen	2007	304	4.07 Stars	50,652
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck	1931	418	3.95 Stars	149.521
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss	2005	260	3.89 Stars	81,760
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld	2004	370	3.87 Stars	160,783
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand	1943	720	3.82 Stars	204,218
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain	2011	314	3.76 Stars	138,164
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes	1996	304	3.67 Stars	235,071
Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini	2013	352	3.36 Stars	11,667

December 2014 Suggestions:

Title & Author	From Goodreads.com
	Year First Published	Page Count	Rating	# of ratings
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini	2007	372	4.31 Stars	599,763
*Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card	1985	324	4.28 Stars	677,946
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr	2014	544	4.24 Stars	61,823
*In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opkyke	1992	304	4.21 Stars	6,189
*The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini	2002	371	4.21 Stars	1,338,182
Flags of our Fathers by James D. Bradley	2000	382	4.18 Stars	27,057
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell	1855	521	4.13 Stars	63,950
Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck	2011	403	4.12 Stars	32,497
Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran	2009	431	4.10 Stars	15,363
Watership Down by Richard Adams	1972	478	4.03 Stars	228,175
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman	2012	343	3.96 Stars	132,359
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn	2001	208	3.81 Stars	15,782
My Ántonia by Willa Cather	1918	232	3.73 Stars	77,923
*Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare	1594	283	3.72 Stars	1,263,967
*The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey	2012	447	3.59 Stars	10,547
The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems by Michael Harrison	1996	160	3.54 Stars	13